India - Two crore units to be built under 'Housing for All' programme

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Ministry of Finance
07-February, 2018 13:45 IST
Recommendations made by the GST Council for the Housing Sector to promote Affordable Housing for the masses come into force;

Concessional Rate of GST of 12% extended to construction of houses constructed/ acquired under the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme for EWS, LIG, MIG sections

In its 25th Meeting held on 18th January, 2018, the GST Council had made several important recommendations for the Housing Sector which have come into force with effect from 25th January, 2018. The recommendations are expected to promote affordable housing for the masses in the country.

One of the important recommendations made is to extend the concessional rate of GST of 12% (effective rate of 8% after deducting one third of the amount charged for the house, flat etc. towards the cost of land or undivided share of land, as the case may be) in housing sector to construction of houses constructed/ acquired under the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) / Lower Income Group (LIG) / Middle Income Group-1 (MlG-1) / Middle Income Group-2 (MlG-2) under the Housing for All (Urban) Mission/Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana (Urban).


Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) is one of the components of Housing for All (Urban) Mission/Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) (Urban). Under this component, subsidy would be provided on home loans taken by eligible urban poor (EWS/LIG/ MIG-I/ MIG-II) for acquisition and construction of house. Credit linked subsidy would also be available for housing loans availed for new construction and for addition of rooms, kitchen, toilet etc, to existing dwellings as incremental housing. The carpet area of houses constructed under this component of the mission would be up to 30 square meters for EWSA, 60 Square Meters for LIG, 120 sqm for MIG I and 150 Sqm for MIG II. The benefit of Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme may be taken by the Economical Weaker sections or Low/Middle Income Groups for purchase of houses under any project. The maximum annual income for eligibility of beneficiaries under the scheme can be up to Rs.18 lakhs. It covers a very large section of population which aspires to own a home.

So far, houses acquired under CLSS attracted effective GST rate of 18% (effective GST rate of 12% after deducting value of land). The concessional rate of 12% was applicable only on houses constructed under the other three components of the Housing for All (Urban) Mission/Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana (Urban), namely (i) ln-situ redevelopment of existing slums using land as a resource component; (ii) Affordable Housing in partnership and (iii) Beneficiary led individual house construction/enhancement. The exemption has now been recommended for houses acquired under the CLSS component also. Therefore, the buyers would be entitled to interest subsidy under the Scheme as well to a lower concessional rate of GST of 8% (effective rate after deducting value of land).

The GST Council has also recommended that the benefit of concessional rate of GST of 12% (effective GST rate of 8% after deducting value of land) applicable to houses supplied to existing slum dwellers under the in-situ redevelopment of existing slums using land as a resource component of PMAY may be extended to houses purchased by persons other than existing slum dwellers also. This would make the in-situ redevelopment of existing slums using land as a resource component of PMAY more attractive to builders as well as buyers.

The third recommendation of the Council is to include houses constructed for ‘Economically Weaker Section (EWS)’ under the Affordable Housing in partnership (PMAY) under the concessional rate of GST of 8% (effective rate after deducting value of land). This will support construction of houses up to 30 sqm carpet area.

The Fourth Recommendation of the Council is to extend the concessional rate of 12% to services by way of construction of low cost houses up to a carpet area of 60 sqm in a housing project which has been given infrastructure status under notification No. 13/06/2009 dated 30th March, 2009. The said notification of Department of Economic Affairs provides infrastructure status to Affordable Housing.

Affordable Housing has been defined in the said notification as a housing project using at least 50% of the FAR/FSI for dwelng units with carpet area of not more than 60 sqm. The recommendation of the Council would extend the concessional rate of 8% GST (after deducting value of land) to construction of flats/ houses of less than 60 sqm in projects other than the projects covered by any scheme of the Central or State Government also.

In addition to the above, in order to provide a fillip to the housing and construction sector, GST Council has decided to give exemption to leasing of land by Government to Governmental Authority or Government Entity. [Government Entity is defined to mean an authority or board or any other body including a society, trust, corporation, (i) set-up by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature; or (ii) established by any Government, with 90% or more participation by way of equity or control, to carry out any function entrusted by the Central Government, State Government, UT or a local authority].

Also, any sale/lease/sub-lease of land as a part of the composite sale of flats has also been exempted from GST. Therefore, in effect, the Government does not levy GST on supply of land whether by way of sale or lease or sub-lease to the buyer of flats and in fact, gives a deduction on account of the value of land included in the value of flats and only the value of flat is subjected to GST.

It may be recalled that all inputs used in and capital goods deployed for construction of flats, houses, etc attract GST of 18% or 28%. As against this, most of the housing projects in the affordable segment in the country would now attract GST of 8% (after deducting value of land). As a result, the builder or developer will not be required to pay GST on the construction service of flats etc. in cash but would have enough ITC (input tax credits) in his books to pay the output GST, in which case, he should not recover any GST payable on the flats from the buyers. He can recover GST from the buyers of flats only if he recalibrates the cost of the flat after factoring in the full ITC available in the GST regime and reduces the ex-GST price of flats.

The builders/developers are expected to follow the principles laid down under Section 171 of the GST Act scrupulously. The above changes have come into force with effect from 25 January 2018.



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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
08-February, 2018 17:21 IST
1,86,777 Affordable Houses Sanctioned for Urban Poor Under Pmay(Urban)

Rs.11,169 cr investment approved with central assistance of rs.2,797 cr Haryana gets 53,290 houses, Tamil Nadu-40,623, Karnataka-32,656, Gujarat-15,584, Maharashtra-12,123, Bihar-11,411, Kerala-9,461, Uttarakhand-6,226, Odisha-5,133

Ministry of Housing & UrbanAffairshas approved the construction of 1,86,777more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs.11,169crwith central assistance of Rs. 2,797 cr. The approval was given in the 30th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in its meeting held here yesterday.

Haryana has been sanctioned 53,290 houses in 38 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.4,322cr with central assistance of Rs.799 cr. Tamil Nadu got 40,623 houses in 65 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.2,314cr and central assistance of Rs.609 cr. Karnataka has been sanctioned 32,656 affordable houses in 95 cities with an investment of Rs.1,461cr and central assistance of Rs.490 cr.Gujarat has been sanctioned 15,584 houses in 45 cities and towns with an investment of Rs. 946cr with central assistance of Rs.234 cr. Maharashtra has been sanctioned 12,123 houses in 13 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.868cr with central assistance of Rs.182 cr. Kerala has been sanctioned 9,461 houses in 52 cities with an investment of Rs.284 cr. with central assistance of Rs.142 crores.Uttarakhand has been sanctioned 6,226 houses in 57 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.258 cr. with central assistance of Rs.93 cr. Orissa got 5,133 houses in 26 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.156 cr. with central assistance of Rs.77 cr.

The approval accorded was for construction of 1,08,095 new houses under the Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) component of PMAY (Urban), building, 26,672 in Tamil Nadu, 16,630 in Karnataka, 13,663 houses in Haryana, 11,411 in Bihar,9,461 in Kerala, 8,768 in Gujarat, 7,088 in Maharashtra, 5,698 in Uttarakhand and 5,133 houses in OdishaA total 36,056 in Haryana, 16,026 in Karnataka, 13,951 in Tamil Nadu, 6,246 in Gujarat, 5,035 in Maharashtra, 528 in Uttarakhand -under Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) component.

With the above proposed houses, cumulative houses under PMAY(U) would become 37,83,392 after final approval from CSMC. Further after subsuming projects of RAY scheme the total number of houses being funded under PMAY(Urban) would be 39,25,240 houses.

 

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The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu being received by the Governor of Maharashtra, Shri C. Vidyasagar Rao and the Minister for Housing Department, Shri Prakash Mehta, on his arrival, in Mumbai on February 19, 2018.

 

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Cabinet
20-February, 2018 16:30 IST
Cabinet approves creation of National Urban Housing Fund

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given approval for creation of National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF) for Rs.60,000 crores. This fund will be situated in Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The Ministry has so far sanctioned 39.4 lakh houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). There is a very good response from the States / UTs and nearly 2 - 3 lakh houses are being sanctioned every month. More than 17 lakh houses have been grounded and about 5 lakh houses have been completed. Under Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS), wherein housing for EWS / LIG / MIG beneficiaries is being sanctioned by the Banks / HFCs to the eligible beneficiaries under the PMAY(Urban), the responses have grown significantly. Nearly 87,000 Housing Loans have been sanctioned in last 8 months under the Scheme and over 40,000 applications are under consideration for approval. The target is to cater to the demand of housing shortage of nearly 1.2 crore and make available housing to all by 2022, when the Country celebrates its 75th Anniversary of Independence.



NUHF will facilitate raising requisite funds in next four years so that flow of Central Assistance under different verticals i.e. Beneficiary Linked Construction (BLC), Affordable Housing in Parternership (AHP), In-Situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR) and Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) is sustained and construction of houses to address the gap in Urban Sector progresses smoothly.

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The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri addressing a press conference, in New Delhi on February 26, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra and other dignitaries are also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri addressing a press conference, in New Delhi on February 26, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra and other dignitaries are also seen.

 

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
27-February, 2018 18:10 IST
Enabling Environment for Municipalities for Autonomy in their Funds Utilisation & Management Proposed

Urgent need to develop the tools and financial instruments to channelise resources for Infrastructure Development: Puri

Sh. Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of State (I/C) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has stated that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is working to create an enabling environment for municipalities where they are the custodians of their revenue, and enjoy autonomy in deciding how their funds will be utilized. Emphasising on need for promotion of new financing instruments like municipal bonds, he said that there is an urgent need to develop the necessary tools and instruments that can channel resources for infrastructure development. He was speaking at the AIIB Annual Meeting 2018 in New Delhi in the session:” New Financing Paradigms for Sustainable Infrastructure”, here today.

Addressing the participants , the minister informed that the government gives high priority to the development of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive, infrastructure development and added that flagship missions anchored in the Ministry are all directed towards building India’s urban infrastructure which are predicated on the Prime Minister’s vision of providing Indians with ‘Ease of Living’.

Sh Puri further stated that at the heart of India’s growth, which seeks to more than double India’s GDP to USD 7 trillion by 2030, will be the New Urban Agenda - one where each individual lives in his/her own house; one where there is 100% solid waste management and each region is ODF; and one where technology ensures a certain of ‘Ease of Living’ for the urban Indian.

From finance to capacity building, from setting benchmarks and standards to creating a normative framework around infrastructure development, he acknowledged the role of Multilateral Development Banks, such as AIIB, to be crucial in helping India achieve the transition, from a developing to a developed economy.

 

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Ministry of Corporate Affairs
28-February, 2018 18:09 IST
Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposes penalty of Rs. 1,00,60,794/- (Rupees one crore sixty thousand seven hundred ninety four only) on Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) for abuse of its Dominant Position; Cease and Desist Order was also issued against GDA.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found GDA to be in contravention of the provisions of Section 4(1) read with Section 4(2)(a)(i) of the Competition Act, 2002 for abuse of its dominant position by imposing unfair condition on the allottees from economically weaker sections in its Pratap Vihar Residential Housing Scheme.

CCI held that conduct of GDA in raising the price of EWS flats from the initial price of

Rs.2,00,000/- in 2008 to Rs.7,00,000/- in 2015 under the said

Scheme without any enabling provision either in the Brochure of the Scheme or allotment letter is arbitrary and unilateral. Further, the condition for levying penal interest @ 10.5% per annum in case of delay in the payment of the quarterly instalments by the allottees without a corresponding provision for GDA in case delay of in giving possession of the flats is abusive, being one sided and unfair. Therefore, CCI held that such conduct of GDA is in violation of Section 4(2)(a)(i) of the Act. Resultantly, CCI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 1,00,60,794/- (Rupees one crore sixty thousand seven hundred ninety four only) on GDA for the said anti-competitive conduct. Besides, a Cease and Desist Order was also issued against GDA.

The Order was passed on 28.02.2018 in Case No. 86 of 2016 and a copy thereof has been uploaded on the website of CCI at www.cci.gov.in.

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
28-February, 2018 18:46 IST
1,28,509 Affordable Houses Sanctioned for Urban Poor under PMAY(urban)

Rs.9,364 Cr investment approved with Central Assistance of Rs.1,928 Cr Haryana gets 62,451 Houses, Uttar Pradesh-36,056, Chattisgarh-28,029, Puducherry-1,973

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has approved the construction of 1,28,509 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs. 9,364 cr with central assistance of Rs. 1,928 cr. The approval was given in the 31st meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in its meeting held here yesterday. The projects where sanctioned across 184 cities in the states of Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Puducherry(UT).

Haryana has been sanctioned 62,451 houses in 33 cities and towns with an investment of Rs. 6,844 cr with central assistance of Rs.937 cr. Uttar Pradesh got 36,056 houses in 95 cities and towns with an investment of Rs. 1,287 cr and central assistance of Rs.541 cr. Chattisgarh has been sanctioned 28,029 affordable houses in 54 cities with an investment of Rs. 1,151 cr and central assistance of Rs.420 cr. Puducherry has been sanctioned 1,973 houses in 2 cities and towns with an investment of Rs. 83 cr with central assistance of Rs.30 cr.

The approval accorded was for construction of 51,940 new houses under the Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) component of PMAY (Urban), 15,033 in Uttar Pradesh, 10,572 in Chattisgarh, 2,049 houses in Haryana, 1,973 in Puducherry, A total 54,560 in Haryana, 4,552 in Uttar Pradesh and 17,457 in Chhattisgarh under Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) component.

With the above proposed houses, cumulative houses under PMAY(U) would become 39,15,402 after final approval from CSMC. Further after subsuming projects of RAY scheme the total number of houses being funded under PMAY(Urban) would be 40,57,250 houses.

 

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Prime Minister's Office
05-March, 2018 13:08 IST
PM to inaugurate New CIC premises on 6th March

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new premises of Central Information Commission, CIC at Munirka in the capital tomorrow. The new building will enable the Commission to function from a single location. Earlier it was working from two hired buildings. The new CIC building is a State of the Art-Green Building constructed by National Building Construction Corporation ahead of its completion date. The five storey structure houses all the hearing rooms of the Central Information Commission with state of the art, IT and Video Conferencing Systems. CIC is the apex appellate body established by the Right to Information Act 2005.

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The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri addressing the press conference, in New Delhi on March 05, 2018.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri addressing the press conference, in New Delhi on March 05, 2018.

 

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Vice President's Secretariat
15-March, 2018 13:09 IST
Bring in reality in real estate sector to improve economy: Vice President

There is a need for correction of prices; Cost of unit is going up because of middlemen;

Private sector and real estate developers must play a bigger role in promoting low cost housing;

Inaugurates the two-day CREDAI Conclave

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that real estate developers and builders to bring in reality in real estate sector to improve economy. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the two-day CREDAI Conclave, here today.

The Vice President said that housing in our country is as basic a need as food and clothing and the judiciary has broadly interpreted the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution to include the right to shelter. He further said that everyone need to adapt to the transformation that is taking place in the realty sector by combining technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Rapid urbanization coupled with migration from rural areas has led to a massive housing shortage, he added.


The Vice President said that with a view to easing the severe housing shortage, the Government has taken a number of measures to boost the affordable housing segment. He further said that challenges like lack of low cost land in urban areas and delays in clearances need to be addressed to boost affordable housing. Although the measures taken by the government have given a boost to affordable housing, there is a need for the private sector and real estate developers to play a bigger role in promoting low cost housing, he added.

The Vice President said that India should not compromise its hard-earned fiscal discipline in order to accelerate growth, adding that resorting to countercyclical policies will not help spur sustained growth. He further said that real estate developers to focus on two important things for the families of the workers—health and education. These two should be given top priority and ensure that the workers and their families are not denied their basic rights in any manner, he added.

Following is the text of Vice President’s address:

“I am happy to be amidst you to inaugurate the two-day CREDAI Conclave. After a period of slowdown, the realty sector is showing signs of revival, which is good for the economy as construction industry and infrastructure play a vital role in propelling growth. The fact that real estate sector is the second largest employer after agriculture underlines the important role it plays in our economic growth.

I am sure that CREDAI, the apex organization of housing and habitat providers in the country with about 12,000 members, is well geared up to implement the best standards and practices in tune with the new regulatory regime.

Various regulatory measures like implementation of RERA and GST are aimed to strengthen the real estate market by introducing transparency and creating greater confidence in the consumers. They seek to correct distortions, streamline the sector and bring in more investments. The CREDAI-JLL report itself has acknowledged that RERA coupled with GST has improved the regulatory environment leading to rationalizing of prices and ensuring a setting in which only compliant players thrive.

In the new ecosystem, the pioneering initiatives like 100 Smart Cities, Housing for All by 2022 and PMAY will create huge investment opportunities for new projects for private sector across the country. All of you need to adapt to the transformation that is taking place in the realty sector by combining technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Housing in our country is as basic a need as food and clothing. The judiciary has broadly interpreted the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution to include the right to shelter.

Sisters and Brothers,

Rapid urbanization coupled with migration from rural areas has led to a massive housing shortage. It is estimated that currently there is a shortage of 19 million housing units in India with 96 per cent of those affected by the paucity belonging to Economically Weaker Sections and Middle Income Groups. The sheer scale of this shortage is staggering. Around 56 per cent of this shortage is among households from Economically Weaker Sections and the remaining 40 per cent is from the Lower Income Groups. This deficit is expected to get doubled to 38 million units in India by 2030.

With a view to easing the severe housing shortage, the Government has taken a number of measures to boost the affordable housing segment. They include granting infrastructure status, increasing the time limit from three to five years for completion of projects, allowing a year’s time to pay tax on notional rental income on unsold units and credit linked subsidy. It is believed that affordable housing segment will drive the realty sector in the coming months in view of the supportive measures taken by the government.

In a bid to provide a major thrust to affordable housing, the Government had increased the outlay for PMAY (Urban) by Rs. 25,000 crore in extra budgetary resources for the implementation of PMAY in the financial year 2018-2019. It will be raised outside general budget. The budgetary support is Rs.6500 crore which translates into an effective enhancement of 520 per cent over previous year.

Around 37.45 lakh dwelling units in 7,474 projects with an investment of Rs. 2,03,752 crore have been accepted under PMAY in the last 31 months. Out of this, 19.49 lakh houses have been grounded and 3,19,648 houses have already been completed. A total of 2,78,267 houses have been occupied.

A National Urban Housing Fund for Rs. 60,000 crores have been set up in Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for raising Extra BudgetaryResources (EBR) in phases for the rapid implementation of (PMAY) (U).

The announcement of a dedicated “Affordable Housing Fund” will go a long way in meeting this requirement of low-cost housing. The modalities to operationalize the Fund will be worked out by NHB.

Some of the Recent Initiatives include expanding the scope of CLSS to include two MIG income categories to provide four per cent and three per cent subsidy for loans up to Rs. 9 lakhs and up to Rs. 12 lakhs respectively. Similarly, the carpet area for MIG-I has been increased up to 120 square metre and for MIG-II up to 150 sq. metre.

The other initiatives include lowering of GST rate from 12 per cent to eight per cent for the houses covering EWS, LIG, MIG I and MIG II. Thus, most of the housing projects in the affordable segment in the country would now attract GST of eight per cent (after deducting value of land).

The recently revised FDI circular permitting FDI into Real Estate Brokering Service would further professionalize the sector.

Overall, the Union Budget coupled with the recent initiatives will have a positive impact on the Housing and Real Estate Sector in India.

In order to overcome the housing shortage, there is a huge need to step up housing loans, which are 7 per cent of the GDP, much lower than any developed country and even lower than 20 per cent witnessed in South East Asian countries.

As against an annual average of Rs. 1 lakh crore for housing, it is estimated that an investment of Rs.18 to 20 lakh crore is required for the next six years.

The twin roles of housing as a development imperative and as an engine for growth have played an important role in ensuring equitable distribution of income. I am told that the share of real estate sector, which includes ownership of dwellings, accounted for 7.7 per cent in India’s overall Gross Value Added in 2015-16. The labour to output ratio is the highest among all the sectors, which points to the critical role of housing in generating employment. The role of housing in boosting investments on sustainable basis is highlighted by the fact that a unit of increase in the final expenditure in the housing sector generates additional income as high as three times the income generated within the housing sector itself.

While the number of new launches in the residential sector in eight cities—Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune declined by about eight per cent during 2016-17, the launches of affordable housing units increased by 10 per cent, according to Cushman & Wakefield research report (2017). In fact, the share of affordable segment increased to 30 per cent in total launches in 2016-17 as against 25 per cent in 2015-16.

Sisters and Brothers,

Although the measures taken by the government have given a boost to affordable housing, there is a need for the private sector and real estate developers to play a bigger role in promoting low cost housing. Other challenges like lack of low cost land in urban areas and delays in clearances need to be addressed to boost affordable housing.

Friends,

India’s growth in recent years has been supported by "prudent macroeconomic policy including a new inflation targeting framework, energy subsidy reforms, fiscal consolidation, higher quality of public expenditure and a stable balance of payment situation.

“In addition, recent policy reforms have helped India improve the business environment, ease inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) and improve credit behavior” said World Bank’s India Country Director Junaid Ahmad.

“In the long-run, for higher growth to be sustainable and inclusive, India needs to use land and water, which are increasingly becoming scarce resources, more productively, make growth more inclusive, and strengthen its public sector to meet the challenges of a fast growing, globalizing and increasingly middle-class economy,” he added.

This will require continued impetus for structural reforms. Resorting to countercyclical policies will not help spur sustained growth and India should not compromise its hard-earned fiscal discipline in order to accelerate growth.

The strength of the Indian economy and favourable demographics, coupled with the introduction of several growth oriented reforms are aiding the real estate sector to attract higher investments. The Indian real estate has attracted institutional investments of over US$ 10.7 billion, since the beginning of 2016, which is more than half of the total investments witnessed since 2013.

Private equity investments in the real estate sector have increased from US$ 0.9 billion in 2013 to over US$ 5.9 billion in 2016, recording more than six fold jump during this period. The year 2017 is on its course to witness the highest annual investment in Indian realty in the past decade, with about US$ 5 billion worth of funds already been invested between January and June 2017. Also the total FDI of US$ 257 million in the first half of 2017 is more than double the total FDI in 2016.

This positive sentiment was attributed to a host of factors including regulatory environment leading to higher transparency, accountability and making the sector better organized and structured, thereby increasing the investment.

Finally, I would like to compliment CREDAI for the host of CSR activities undertaken by it. At the same time, I would like CREDAI to focus on two important things for the families of the workers—health and education. These two should be given top priority and ensure that the workers and their families are not denied their basic rights in any manner.

JAI HIND!”

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The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu addressing the gathering after inaugurating a two-day CREDAI Conclave, in New Delhi on March 15, 2018.

 

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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
15-March, 2018 15:17 IST
Absorption of Contractual Employees

The Government posts are regularly filled up in accordance with the recruitment rules. However, keeping in view the administrative exigency of work, efficiency and economy of operations and unavoidable circumstances, outsourcing through contract is also sometimes resorted to by the Ministries/Departments directly. However, such engagements can only be stop-gap arrangements. It is the responsibility of the Ministry/Department to fill up vacant posts on regular basis following due procedure.

Hon’ble Apex Court vide order dated 10.04.2006 in the Civil Appeal 3595-3612 of 1999 in the case of Uma Devi and others vs Secretary, State of Karnataka, directed that there should be no further by-passing of the Constitutional requirement and regularizing or making permanent, those not duly appointed as per the Constitutional scheme.

No certralized data regarding contractual employees working in Government Departments in maintained.

This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.



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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
15-March, 2018 15:16 IST
Use of RTI for Extracting Private Details of Individuals

The RTI Act aims “to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”

Right to Information Act has enough provisions to deny access to information which may harm personal interests.

This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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Ministry of Rural Development
22-March, 2018 10:45 IST
Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana (Gramin) (PMAY (G) shall complete one crore houses by March, 2019.

Hon’ble Prime Minister launched PMAY (G) on November 20, 2016 (14 months ago) from Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The target was to complete one crore houses by March 31, 2019. Since some Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) houses were still incomplete, Department of Rural Development was given a target of 1.02 crore houses, which included completion of two lakh incomplete IAY houses. This was broken up in 51 lakh houses in 2017-18 and 51 lakh houses in 2018-19.


Against the target of 51 lakh houses in 2017-18, a total of 34.99 lakh houses (29.33 lakh PMAY (G) houses and 5.66 lakh incomplete IAY houses) have already been completed and uploaded on the public website www.pmayg.nic.in. The number can be checked online in report A2. This comes to 68.7% of the target for the year. Since more incomplete IAY houses were there, they had to be completed.

When completed houses are uploaded on the website, it is not only physical completion but also geotagging of the completed houses with photograph and other details. These can be seen in D1 of the GIS reports on www.pmayg.nic.in. Since the process of uploading, geotagging and closure of accounts take a few days, it takes 10-15 days for uploading on site after actual physical completion. It is for this reason that the final figures of completed houses duly uploaded on the site would be available by 10-15 April, 2018.

The Department is confident of reaching very close to the target on the basis of performance in PMAY (G). In A1 report on www.pmayg.nic.in, releases of instalment details are also available. The current position as shown on the public website is as follows:

Sanctions with verified accounts
68.209 lakhs

First instalment paid
60 lakhs

Second instalment paid
47.21 lakhs

Third instalment paid
33.73 lakhs

Completed
29.33 lakh


As is evident from the statement, over 47.21 lakh PMAY (G) houses are at an advanced stage of completion. The target of one crore PMAY (G) houses completion by March, 2019 is easily achievable as it is expected that 60 lakh houses where first instalment has already been released and work is in progress, will get completed by 30.6.2018. The effort of the Department is to try and complete on crore houses by 31.12.2018, even though the target is 31.3.2019.

While most major States have performed well in the programme, Assam and Bihar had a very large number of incomplete IAY houses. Assam also had the NRC process where Block administration was fully involved. Bihar had the problem of availability of sand for many months. While these two States have done well in completing old incomplete houses, their performance in PMAY (G) has started picking up now and it is hoped that they too would equal some of the other better performing States. Likewise, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have their own MISs and as such the uploading of their data on www.pmayg.nic.in is incomplete.

Number of houses completed as per the PMAY (G) website (www.pmayg.nic.in) in reports section A2 year-wise house completion report all central schemes) from 2014-15 to 2017-18 are as follows:

Year

House completed
(Nos. In lakhs)

2014-15
11.91

2015-16
18.23

2016-17
32.24

2017-18(as on 21st March, 2018)
34.99 uploaded so far.


As is evident from the facts above, the thrust in 2015-17 was to get incomple IAY houses completed and over 50.47 lakh houses were completed which had been under construction for many years. The pace of construction is many times of what it was earlier as is clear from the data presented above. With improved cost, better designs, IT/DBT, training of rural masons and continuous effective monitoring in partnership with beneficiaries, local governments, State Governments and Central Government, significantly better performance has been achieved. Department of Rural Development is certain that by March, 2019, given the cooperation of all the States, it will be able to achieve the target of one crore PMAY (G) houses. Even the target for the current financial year would be nearly achieved once uploading on the website is completed.

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

30-August, 2015 12:00 IST
305 cities and towns identified for building houses for urban poor under Housing for All scheme

MP-74 cities,Odisha-42,Rajasthan-40,Chattisgarh-36,Gujarat-30,Telangana-34,J&K-19,Kerala-15,Jharkhand-15

15 States sign MoA with Centre agreeing to implement reforms to ensure success of the Scheme

States agree to do away with Non-Agricultural Permissions and to ensure single-window approvals

Shri Venkaiah Naidu welcomes convergence of Smart City,AMRUT and Housing Missions


Within two months of the launch of the Housing for All (Urban) Mission, 15 States have signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation committing themselves to implement six mandatory reforms essential for making a success of the housing mission in urban areas. 305 cities and towns also have been identified in nine of these states for beginning construction of houses for the urban poor.

By signing the MoA, the States have taken up the responsibility of implementing the six reforms which include:

1.Doing away with the requirement of separate Non Agricultural Permission (NAP) in case land falls in the residential zone earmarked in the Master Plan of city or town;

2.Preparing or amending Master Plans earmarking land for Affordable Housing;

3.Putting in place a single-window-time bound clearance system for layout approvals and building permissions;

4.Doing away with approvals below certain built up area/ plot size in respect of Economically Weaker Sections and Low Income Groups;

5. Legislating or amending existing rent laws on the lines of the Model Tenancy Act circulated by the Ministry of HUPA ; and

6. To provide additional Floor Area Ratio (FAR)/Floor Space Index/Transferable Development Rights (TDR) and relax density norms , for slum redevelopment and low cost housing.

States that have agreed to implement the above reforms include : Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and Uttarakhand.

305 cities and towns in nine of these states have been identified for building houses for urban poor. These include –Chattisgarh (36 cities/towns), Gujarat (30), Jammu & Kashmir (19), Jharkhand (15), Kerala (15), Madhya Pradesh (74), Odisha (42), Rajasthan (40) and Telangana (34).

Under the Housing for All initiative of the Central Government, names as ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and launched by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on June 25 this year’, 2 crore houses are targeted to be built for the poor in urban areas by the year 2022, coinciding with the 75 year of Independence.

Under this urban housing mission, central government will provide an assistance in the range of Rs.1.00 lakh to Rs.2.30 lakh per house under different components of the Scheme including In-situ redevelopment of slums using land as resource, Credit linked Subsidy Scheme, Affordable Housing in Partnership and Beneficiary led individual construction/improvement.

With the announcement of lists under Smart City Mission, AMRUT and Housing for All, there has been a clear convergence of implementation of the three schemes. The 9 states that have identified 305 cities for housing for urban poor, also account for 26 smart cities and 136 AMRUT cities. Of these, smart city mission, AMRUT and Housing Missions will be implemented in 25 smart city aspirants enabling convergence of schemes and resources of State and Central governments. In 136 AMRUT cities, housing projects will also be undertaken.

In case of Telangana, both the smart city aspirants of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporations and Warangal, AMRUT and Housing missions will be implemented. Similarly, in other AMRUT cities of Adilabad,Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahaboobabad, Miryalaguda, Nalgonada, Nizamabad and Suryapet, Housing for All mission will be implemented resulting in convergence.

Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu has welcomed this convergence. He said : “This convergence of urban schemes helps in better utilization of resources resulting in visible improvement in urban areas. I am glad that state governments are resorting to convergence based approach as intended by the central government.”

Details of cities and towns identified for starting construction of houses for urban poor so far are as below:

S.No - State - Cities/towns identified

1 . Chattisgarh(36)

Ahiwara, Ambikapur,Bade Bacheli, Bagbahara,Baikuntpur,Balod,Baloda Bazar, Bhatapara, Bhilai Charoda, Bhilai Nagar,Bijapur,Bilaspur,Birgaon,Champa,Chimiri,Dantewada,Dhamtari,Durg,Gobra , Nawapara,Jagdalpur,Jashpurnagar,Kanker,Kawarda,Kondagaon, Korba,Mahasamund,Mana-camp,Mahendragarh,Mungeli,Naila-janjgir,Narayanpur,Pendra,Raigarh,Raipur, Rajnandgaon,Sukma.

2

Gujarat(30)

Ahmedabad,Amreil,Anand,Ankleswar,Bharuch,Bhavnagar,Bhuj,Deesa,

Gandhidham,Gandhinagar,Himatnagar,Jetpur,Kadi,Kalol,Mehsana,

Morbi,Navsari,Palanpur,Patan,Rajkot,Savarkundla,Sidhpur,Surat,Una,

Unjha,Vadodar,Vallabh Vidyanagar,Valsad,Vapi,Visnagar.

3

J&K

(19)

Anatnag,Badgam,Baramullah,Bashohli,Bhaderwah,Bijbehara,Doda,Ganderbal,

Jammu,kargil,Kathua,Pulwama,Punch,Rajouri,Samba,Shupiyan,Sopore,

Srinagar,Udhampur.

4

Jharkhand(15)

Bokaro , Chas,Chirkunda,Deogarh,Dhanbad,Dumka,Giridhi,Gumla,Hazaribagh,

Jamshedpur,Lohardaga, Medininagar, Phusro, Ramgarh Cantonment,Ranchi.

5

Kerala (15)

Alappuzha,Kalpetta,Kannur,Kasargod,Kochi,Kollam,Kottayam,Kozhikode,

Palakkad,Pathanamthitta,Thiruvananthapuram,Thodurpuzha,Thrikakara,Thrissur.

6

MP

(74)

Agar,Alirajpur,Anupur,Ashoknagar,Astha,Balaghat,Barwani,Berasia,Betul,Bhind,

Bhopal,Bina-Etawa,Budni,Burhanpur,Chandla,Chattarpur,Chindwara,Dabra,

Damoh,Datia,Dewas,Dhar,Dindori, Ganj Basauda, Guna,Gwalior,Hasda,Hoshangabad,

Indore,Itarsi,Jabalpur,Jhabua,Khajuraho,Khandwa,Khargone,Khurai,Maihar,

Manawar,Mandla, Mandsaur,Morena,Murwara(Katni),Nagda,Narsimhapur,

Nasrullaganj,Neemuch,Panna,Patharia, Pithampur,Raisen,Raigarh,Rampur Baghelan,

Ratlam,Rehti,Rewa,Sagar,Sarni,Satna,Sehore,Sendhwa,Seoni,Shadol,Shahganj,Shajapur,

Sheopur,Shivpuri,Sidhi,Sihora,Singrauli,Sonkatch,Tikamgarh,Ujjain,Umaria,Vidisha.

7

Odisha(42)

Anandpur,Athagad,Bolangir,Baleshwar,Banapur,Banki,Bargarh,

Baripada,Bhadrak,Bhawanipatna,Bhubaneswar,Biramitrapur,

Barhampur,Brajrajnagar,Byasanagar,Choudwar,Cuttack,Debagarh,Dhenkanal,

Jagatsinghpur,Jajpur,Jeypore,Jharsuguda,Kantabanji,Khariar,Khurda,Kochinda,

Konark,Koraput,Malkangiri,Nayagarh,Paradip,Puri,Rajrangpur,Rajagangapur,

Rourkela,Rayagada,Sambalpur,Sundargarh,Talcher,Titlagarh,Umarkote.

8

Rajasthan

(40)

Ajmer,Alwar,Balotra,Banswara,Baran,Beawar,Bharatpur,Bhilwara,Bhiwadi,

Bikaner,Bundi,Chaksu,Chittorgarh,Churu,Dhaulpur,Falna,Ganganagar,Gangapur City,Hanumangarh,Hindaun,Jaipur,Jhalawar,Jhunjhunu,Jodhpur,kishangarh,Kota,

Makrana,Nagaur,Nathdwara,Pali,Pratapgarh,Pushkar,Rajsamund,Sardarshahar,

Sawai Madhipur,Sikar,Sujangarh,Tonk,Udaipur,Vijainagar.

9

Telangana

(34)

Achampet,Adilabad,Armur,Bhongir,Bodhan,Dubbaka, Gajwel,

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation,Husnabad, Huzurabad,

Jammikunta, Jangaon, Karimnagar,Kollapur, Khammam,Mahaboobabad,

Mahaboobnagar,Medak,Metpalle,Miryalaguda,Nagarkurnool,Nalgonda,

Nirmal,Nizamabad,Palwancha,Sangareddy,shadnagar, Siddipeta,Sircilla,Suryapeta,

Vicarabad,Wanaparty,Warangal,Zahirabad.

@Hindustani78

1. What are the size of the housing units ?
2. What are the price points ?
3. What materials are being used.
4. Who is going to benefit ?
   
5. What materials are being

 

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Rather than build such ugly units, why don't we build new city clusters like China, that is so much more better for providing facilities like water, sewage, electricity, internet, mobile connectivity, schooling etc.

Another failure for the Modi govt.

 

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
23-March, 2018 15:06 IST
Need for New Strategies & Progressive Urban Policy for Economic & Social Inclusion of Our Cities: Puri

57 Awards Distributed to the ALFS from 21 States and UTs

Day-Nulm Workshop on Swachhata Inaugurated

Shri Hardeep Puri, Minister of State(I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs has stressed on the need for having new strategies and progressive urban policy for ensuring economic and social inclusion of our cities. While inaugurating a DeenDayalAntyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission(DAY-NULM) National Workshop on Swachhata, he hoped that this will provide innovative solutions and learnings through key practices from the States which will open up new possibilities for creating more inclusive and open urban economies. Shri Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Mission Directors, award winners from various States and several stakeholders were also present at the workshop.

Dwelling on the aims and objectives of DAY-NULM, the Minister said that elimination of poverty, attainment of inclusive economic growth, productive employment and gender equality are the main aims of DAY-NULM. The Self-Help Groups (SHGs), mainly of urban poor women, and their Area Level Federations have emerged as strong grassroots institutions with the potential to trigger change in the urban development discourse.

A total of 57 awards were distributed by the Housing and Urban Affairs Minister to the ALFs from 21 states and UTs. Out of these 12 were conferred the first prize of Rs. 1,50,000 each, 20 ALFs-the 2nd prize of Rs. 1,00,000 each and 25 ALFs-the 3rd prize of Rs. 50,000 each.The award winning ALFs were presented a shield and a citation in recognition of their achievements. Besides this, the three national level awards were also given to the best performing ALFs. The first award was secured by Sri Sai Teja Slum Samakya from Siddipet, Telangana, 2nd prize to Sri ALF from Khunti, Jharkhand and 3rd prize to Sambhaji ALF from Hingoli, Maharashtra.Providing details of the awards presented here today, the Minister informed that the Swachhata Excellence Awards were instituted by the Ministry in July 2017 with an objective to recognize and encourage Area Level Federations (ALFs) for their initiatives in sanitation sector including elimination of open defecation, bringing out behavioural change towards healthy sanitation practices, creating awareness about sanitation and its linkage with public health, modern and scientific solid waste management. States have submitted nominations for awards out of which award winning ALFs have been selected. “I am glad to see the ALF representatives here to receive the awards. Under Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U) a large sanitation infrastructure has been created. There is a need for resources to manage and maintain this infrastructure. DAY-NULM has the capacity to provide skilled workforce to fulfil the demand which has been generated in urban sanitation sector. The DAY-NULM and SBM-U Convergence Guidelines navigate towards creating livelihoods in the sanitation ecosystem. It encompasses upgraded livelihoods; by way of formal jobs as well as enterprises in the sanitation sector by responding to the rapidly rising demand for skilled workforce in the sanitation sector. The guidelines can be adopted by states for implementation”, he added.

During the event a convergence guidelines highlighting the convergence models between the two national flagship missions viz. DAY-NULM and Swachh Bharat Mission was also released by the Minister. This event is an endeavor to encourage ALFs to excel in their initiatives pertaining to Swachhata which is an objective of Swachh Bharat Mission. Also, this event is a platform to share several such successful models amongst wider stakeholders for learning and replication.

Explaining the key strengths of the Scheme, Shri Puri stated that DAY-NULM recognizes the need to focus more on market demand driven training programs for the urban poor. The Livelihoods Mission understands the criticality of access to affordable finance for micro entrepreneurs. The Ministry is moving towards a Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode based centralized platform for transfer of interest subsidy to beneficiaries, which is available on bank loans for the urban poor. This will ensure that the subsidy reaches the beneficiaries in a timely manner with greater transparency. Both banks and states will also benefit with the process of interest subsidy being eased out.

The Minister appreciated the active participation from the ground with the SHGs playing a lead role with most of them being women. “The model of empowering local communities has globally proved to be highly effective in implementing development projects. The Mission should continue to nurture more such institutions as they can best identify local problems, develop best ways to address them, and create the best mechanism for implementation of solutions”, he stated.

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
23-March, 2018 12:27 IST
21.97 Lakhs houses grounded /completed against 40.65 Lakh Houses sanctioned since launch of PMAY (Urban)

A press report published in The Times of India on 22nd Mar 2018 under the heading “PM Awas Yojana: Only 8% target met under Urban housing scheme”is misleading. The figure of “8% target met “was derived by using only the ‘houses completed data’ which is an incorrect application of statistics.

The progress of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) can be measured by the fact that as on date 40.65 lakh houses have been sanctioned out of which 18.47 lakh houses have been grounded while 3.5 lakh houses have been completed. Apart from this, out of those houses which remained incomplete till march 2014 and sanctioned under JNNURM, 1.7 lakh houses have been completed. Therefore, total number of houses which have been completed is 5.2lakhs.

Moreover, the number of houses sanctioned by the Govt. in the last 1 year is 21.65 lakhs. The housing projects normally take between 18 to 24 months to complete its life cycle of construction and hence houses grounded for construction is the true indicator of the real and physical progress of the scheme done at ground level. Of the houses grounded for construction, 55% are at ground level, 12% at foundation and the rest are at various stages of completion. The actual pace of the scheme started from October 2016 and the construction activities commenced from 2017 onwards, after partnership with stakeholders and tendering activities.

An enabling ecosystem for Affordable Housing (of which PMAY (U) is a significant part) involving grant of Infrastructure Status, simplification of FDI process, introduction of PPP models, introduction of new modern and innovative construction technologies, increasing the carpet area of houses eligible for interest subsidy under CLSS for MIG and increase in coverage of areas under PMAY (U), amongst others are all gearing towards giving the necessary thrust to the pace of implementation of the Scheme. The GST rate was also reduced from 12% to 8% for the houses constructed or acquired under the CLSS vertical of PMAY-Urban covering EWS, LIG, MIG I and MIG II and has been in effect from January 25, 2018.

With these measures, PMAY(U)is moving in the right direction. Every Month, more than 3 lakh houses are being approved under PMAY(U) and has moved at a fast pace as compared to earlier schemes

1. During the 7-year mission period of JNNURM,12.41 lakh dwelling units were sanctioned; whereas number of sanctioned houses have already reached more than 3 times under PMAY(U) (40.65 lakh houses) in less than 3 years.
2. Rate of completion of houses under PMAY(U) is approx 14,252 houses per month which was only 8,333 houses per month under the earlier scheme.
3. In the earlier Interest subvention Schemes (ISHUP/RRY), only Rs 22.50 Crore was released to 18,166 beneficiary loan accounts while under PMAY(U) beneficiaries are 5 times (91,694) and interest subsidy is over 82 times (Rs. 1,859 Crore).

The centre has released Rs. 13,582 crore as assistance to the states/UTs under this scheme. A mechanism for ensuring continued funding to States/UTs has been formulated with the approval by the Union Government last month to set up a National Urban Housing Fund for Rs. 60,000 crores in the Ministry for raising Extra Budgetary Resources (EBR) in phases for the rapid implementation of PMAY (U).

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri lighting the lamp to inaugurate the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presenting the awards, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presenting the awards, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presenting the awards, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presenting the awards, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presenting the awards, at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C), Shri Hardeep Singh Puri addressing at the inauguration of the National Workshop on Urban Livelihood Mission, in New Delhi on March 23, 2018. The Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra is also seen.